John Proctor's Redemption In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

John Proctors redemption arc “I am bewildered by the death of love”(Miller). Arthur Miller is a man of beautiful words and putting them onto pages. Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. Miller wrote The Crucible to show cultural and political "excitement" during the communist era. John Proctor is one of Arthur most finest characters by development and personality. In the play The Crucible, Arthur Miller develops Proctor’s redemption arc with his relationships with other characters and conflicts within the town to display the idea that people who look for redemption

At the end of the book danforth tells proctor to sign his name or he can't say he did commit witchcraft and proctor says, “you have no need for this” (Miller 143). Proctor does not want to sign his name away but Danforth says confession doesn’t count unless he signs his name away to the paper. While Proctor is deciding whether to confess a lie or not, he eventually gives into danforth but refuses to sign his name. If danforth let him go without signing his name proctor would've never got his redemption and lost his good faith name. His name was the last thing he had left for some dignity. Danforth brought Rebecca Nurse in when proctor made his decision and Rebecca had this to say ”let you fear nothing” (Miller 144). Rebbecca nurse is surprised that proctor chooses life by telling danforth he's committed witchcraft. Proctor is in a conflict with the town because he's committed to using witchcraft where the end result is life or death. He makes the decision to sign his name to the devil so he can live but seeing Rebecca nurse changes his mind that he'd rather die a hero than live a lie. All these quotes tie back to the main theme of this essay which is redemption which in a way is proctor choosing his good faith over living a lie of being labeled a witch. Rebbecca had a big part in this by being such a respected name in the town and John wants to be a respected figure too. By not standing up for what is right and giving into Danforth is a very weak thing to do. My second, secondary source gave me another beautiful statement about John Proctor “The same is true of the trial scene in The Crucible, where a young man, dominated by reason and self-respect, is seen fighting with the irrational forces of society”(Bhatia 3). The quote shows how Proctor is fighting society and how irrational they are. all the decisions the society around John Proctor made lead him to